Cleveland State University EngagedScholarship@CSU World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department of World Languages, Literatures, Faculty Publications and Cultures Fall 2005 Translating the Lesbian Writer : Pierre Loüys, Natalie Clifford Barney, and "Girls of the Future Society" Tama L. Engelking Cleveland State University,
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[email protected]. Translating the lesbian Writer: Pierre Louys, Natalie Barney, and "Girls of the Future Society" Tama Lea Engelking, Cleveland State University WHEN PIERRE Lou?s PUBLISHED his famous literary hoax Les chansons de Bilitis (Songs of Bilitis) in 1895, he dedicated the pseudogrec vol ume of prose poems to "Girls of the Future Society.'" Although they were original poems, or what he called "prose sonnets," Louys pre sented his work as a scholarly translation of erotic songs composed by a contemporary of Sappho's whose tomb was recently unearthed by a German archaeologist.